General

The following are some interesting Op-eds on President Bush's current tour of the Middle East:

1. Boston Globe - Bush's Farewell Mideast Tour
2. New York Times - How to Enrage a Democrat
4. Mark Steyn - Obama an Appeaser? How dare you
5. LA Times - Negotiating isn't Appeasement read more...

1. Secretary of State Rice is in Iraq to bolster Prime Minister al-Maliki. The big concern is talking down the Sadrists from re-igniting fighting. Amid Rocket Attacks, Rice Makes Surprise Visit to Baghdad.

2. President Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown re-affirmed the "special relationship" last week, Gordon Brown and George Bush Promote International Alliance at White House.
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I bet you didn't know that the U.S. State Department has an official blog. It has some surprisingly useful insight on State Dept. views and you should check it out.

Even more interesting is the official blog of Britain's Foreign Office. Here, you have the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, writing about his day-to-day routine as well as random tid-bits of policy thinking. I know that FPBmonitor is supposed to cover only American foreign policy, but I find Miliband's blog fascinating. I just wish Condi Rice would do something similar that is as open and earnest.
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